Explore One Of The Most Powerful Positive And Wonderful William James Quotes
01) ”Procrastination is attitude’s natural assassin. There’s nothing so fatiguing as an uncompleted task.”
02) ”My experience is what I agree to attend to.”
03) ”There are no differences but differences of degree between different degrees of difference and no difference.”
04) ”Human beings, by changing the inner attitudes of their minds, can change the outer aspects of their lives.”
05) ”Wherever you are, it is your friends who make your world.”
06) ”If you believe that feeling bad or worrying long enough will change a past or future event, then you are residing on another planet with a different reality system.”
07) ”Begin to be now what you will be hereafter. ”
08) ”Good-humor is a philosophic state of mind; it seems to say to Nature that we take her no more seriously than she takes us. I maintain that one should always talk of philosophy with a smile.”
09) ”Our view of the world is truly shaped by what we decide to hear.”
10) ”Anything you may hold firmly in your imagination can be yours.”
11) ”To perceive the world differently, we must be willing to change our belief system, let the past slip away, expand our sense of now, and dissolve the fear in our minds.”
12) ”Whenever you’re in conflict with someone, there is one factor that can make the difference between damaging your relationship and deepening it. That factor is attitude.”
13) ”Nothing is so fatiguing as the eternal hanging on of an uncompleted task.”
14) ”The great use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it.”
15) ”The deepest principle in human nature is the craving to be appreciated.”
16) ”If you can change your mind, you can change your life.”
17) ”Be not afraid of life. Believe that life is worth living, and your belief will help create the fact.”
18) ”Seek out that particular mental attribute which makes you feel most deeply and vitally alive, along with which comes the inner voice which says, ‘This is the real me,’ and when you have found that attitude, follow it.”
19) ”Whenever two people meet, there are really six people present. There is each man as he sees himself, each man as the other person sees him, and each man as he really is.”
20) ”The greatest weapon against stress is our ability to choose one thought over another.”
21) ”The greatest discovery of any generation is that a human can alter his life by altering his attitude.”
22) ”Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.”
23) ”A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices.”
24) ”We are like islands in the sea, separate on the surface but connected in the deep.”
25) ”The art of being wise is knowing what to overlook.”
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25) ”Action may not always bring happiness, but there is no happiness without action.”
26) ”Your hopes, dreams and aspirations are legitimate. They are trying to take you airborne, above the clouds, above the storms, if you only let them.”
27) ”The union of the mathematician with the poet, fervor with measure, passion with correctness, this surely is the ideal.”
28) ”The strenuous life tastes better.”
29) ”we have to live today by what truth we can get today and be ready tomorrow to call it falsehood.”
30) ”A man has as many social selves as there are distinct groups of persons about whose opinion he cares. He generally shows a different side of himself to each of these different groups.”
31) ”Religion is a monumental chapter in the history of human egotism.”
32) ”Age is a very high price to pay for maturity.”
33) ”When you have to make a choice and don’t make it, that is in itself a choice.”
34) ”There are two lives, the natural and the spiritual, and we must lose the one before we can participate in the other.”
35) ”A sense of humor is just common sense dancing.”
36) ”The moral flabbiness born of the exclusive worship of the bitch-goddess SUCCESS. That – with the squalid cash interpretation put on the word ‘success’ – is our national disease.”
37) ”The aim of a college education is to teach you to know a good man when you see one.”
38) ”Belief creates the actual fact.”
39) ”Knowledge about life is one thing; effective occupation of a place in life, with its dynamic currents passing through your being, is another.”
40) ”There is no more miserable human being than one in whom nothing is habitual but indecision.”
41) ”We have grown literally afraid to be poor. We despise anyone who elects to be poor in order to simplify and save his inner life. If he does not join the general scramble and pant with the money-making street, we deem him spiritless and lacking in ambition.”
42) ”Genius, in truth, means little more than the faculty of perceiving in an unhabitual way.”
43) ”Beyond the very extremity of fatigue distress, amounts of ease and power that we never dreamed ourselves to own, sources of strength habitually not taxed at all, because habitually we never push through the obstruction.”
44) ”The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual; the impulse dies away without the sympathy of the community.”
45) ”Action seems to follow feeling, but really action and feeling go together; and by regulating the action, which is under the more direct control of the will, we can indirectly regulate the feeling, which is not.”
46) ”None of us are ever who we were yesterday.”
47) ”The prevalent fear of poverty among the educated classes is the worst moral disease from which our civilization suffers.”
48) ”All our life, so far as it has definite form, is but a mass of habits.”
49) ”A man with no philosophy in him is the most inauspicious and unprofitable of all possible social mates.”
50) ”Each of us literally chooses, by his way of attending to things, what sort of universe he shall appear to himself to inhabit.”
51) ”If you wish to upset the law that all crows are black, you mustn’t seek to show that no crows are; it is enough if you prove one single crow to be white.”
52) ”It is only by risking our persons from one hour to another that we live at all.”
53) ”This life is worth living, we can say, since it is what we make it.”
54) ”It would probably astound each of us beyond measure to be let into his neighbors mind and to find how different the scenery was there from that of his own.”
55) ”our experience is what we attend to.”
56) ”A man’s Self is the sum total of all that he can call his, not only his body and his psychic powers, but his clothes and his house.”
57) ”The greatest discovery of our generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind. As you think, so shall you be.”
58) ”Wisdom is seeing something in a non-habitual manner.”
59) ”Everyone knows what attention is. It is taking possession of the mind, in clear and vivid form, of one out of what seems several simultaneously possible objects or trains of thought. Focalization, concentration of consciousness are of its essence. It implies a withdrawal from some things in order to deal effectively with others.”
60) ”The greatest revolution of our generation is the discovery that human beings by changing the inner attitudes of their minds, can change the outer aspects of their lives.”
61) ”Seize the very first possible opportunity to act on every resolution you make, and on every emotional prompting you may experience in the direction of the habits you aspire to gain.”
62) ”The attempt at introspective analysis… is in fact like seizing a spinning top to catch its motion, or trying to turn up the gas quickly enough to see the darkness.”
63) ”Most people, probably, are in doubt about certain matters ascribed to their past. They may have seen them, may have said them, done them, or they may only have dreamed or imagined they did so.”
64) ”There’s nothing so absurd that if you repeat it often enough, people will believe it.”
65) ”The best use of life is to spend it for something that outlasts it.”
66) ”Most people never run far enough on their first wind to find out they’ve got a second.”
67) ”Compared to what we ought to be, we are only half awake.”
68) ”To know is one thing, and to know for certain that we know is another. One.”
69) ”A difference which makes no difference is no difference at all.”
70) ”When once a decision is reached and execution is the order of the day, dismiss absolutely all responsibility and care about the outcome.”
71) ”We ought to say a feeling of and, a feeling of if, a feeling of but, and a feeling of by, quite as readily as we say a feeling of blue or a feeling of cold.”
72) ”Human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind.”
73) ”Faith is when you believe something that you know ain’t true.”
74) ”To change one’s life: Begin now. Be bold. No exceptions.”
75) ”Resign your destiny to higher powers.”
76) ”The intellectual life of man consists almost wholly in his substituting a conceptual order for the perceptual order in which his experience originally comes.”
77) ”Belief and doubt are living attitudes, and involve conduct on our part. Our only way, for example, of doubting, or refusing to believe, that a certain thing is, is continuing to act as if it were not.”
78) ”In truths dependent on our personal action, then, faith based on desire is certainly a lawful and possibly an indispensable thing.”
79) ”As a rule reading fiction is as hard to me as trying to hit a target by hurling feathers at it. I need resistance to celebrate!”
80) ”’Act as if what you do makes a difference, it does.”
